They were likely to want all they could get before they saw the Hollow again.
It was near twelve o'clock when we mounted.

Starlight said-- 'By Jove, boys, it's a pity we didn't belong to a troop of irregular horse instead of this rotten colonial Dick Turpin business, that one can't help being ashamed of.

They would have been delighted to have recruited the three of us, as we ride, and our horses are worth best part of ten thousand rupees.

What a tent-pegger Rainbow would have made, eh, old boy ?' he said, patting the horse's neck.

'But Fate won't have it, and it's no use whining.' The coach was to pass half-an-hour after midnight.